Dealing with the United States Election (2016)

By William T. Rand 

"While those who were looking for a change from government as usual are happy with the results of the election, there are many who are upset with how the 2016 United States presidential election turned out. And in fact, people are experiencing feelings of fear, anger, anxiety and foreboding far more deeply than after any previous US election. Some find it hard to fully accept or comprehend and are walking around half dazed hoping that somehow it will fade away and be revealed as a bad dream before it has a chance to play out. And for a large number of people, the situation is made worse by the fact that many are happy with the results and support the campaign promises made by the president-elect. These feelings are being felt by people in the US but just as much or in many cases even more so all over the world. 

Fortunately, as Reiki practitioners, we have a healing solution to use in addressing our own personal feelings as well as for addressing the unfolding political situation in America. First of all, it is important for us to use this situation to heal ourselves more deeply. When a negative event affects us, it tends to re-stimulate unresolved emotional distress that we have stored inside. This unresolved distress was often created long ago and was added to by subsequent negative experiences that we were not able to heal at the time. Shoving them deep inside ourselves was the only way we knew to respond to them. Even though we may not be fully aware of them most of the time, they still have a negative effect on our lives and lower the level of health, well-being and vitality we experience. The re-stimulation of these old feelings that were hidden from our awareness causes them to rise to the surface of our emotions where they can be more easily healed. By looking at the current political situation in this way, we can use it positively to move forward with our own healing and by doing so, become better able to healthily address the resulting changes taking place in the world around us.

So if you are feeling overwhelmed by what is happening, or feeling any negative feeling at all about it, it is important for you to give yourself more Reiki. When doing so, say prayers asking to be guided to place your hands in the areas needed to heal the negative feelings you’ve been having and give thanks for the healing that is taking place for you.

It is also important to send Reiki to the situation that America and the world now faces when the new president takes office January 20th. Send Reiki to the US government including the president and all those who work with him—not with any specific intention in mind but simply that the Source of Reiki (God, Supreme Being, Creator, The Universe, Innate Intelligence or any name you think of as the Source of Reiki) will bless the new president and the entire US government. You could also send Reiki to all the people of the United States and everyone on the planet. Note that when sending Reiki to bless someone, it empowers the person to do only what is in alignment with the values and purpose of Reiki. This will help to bring about the healthiest outcome possible as we are not using our own limited wisdom to direct the energy, but allowing the greatest wisdom in the Universe to guide the results.

Allow yourself to forgive. Forgiveness does not mean that we condone what has been done or might be done. It means that we let go of our anger and any negative thoughts toward others. As you let go and forgive, you allow your own healing to take place more deeply. Forgiveness also reaches out to those who need healing the most and allows them to heal more deeply too. Forgiveness is a gift for oneself as well as for others and is one of the important lessons that Reiki healing brings to us.

It is also important for you to contact all your Reiki friends and make plans to get together in person to give each other Reiki and to send Reiki to the situation. Call the leaders of the Reiki support groups that you know about in your area or any of your Reiki teachers or Reiki leaders to get together in person if possible and work with you on this project. Doing this will bring help for each of you personally, and it will also help the US and the entire world.

We stand at an important turning point in the political affairs of the United States that will also have a significant effect on the world. We literally have within our hands the ability to heal this situation in a way that creates a positive outcome that will touch the lives of billions of people. Let us join our hearts and hands together and allow the blessings of love and compassion to flow out to everyone in the world."

Sending Reiki at a Distance

I received a call recently from one of my students who I attuned to a Reiki Level II (Distance Reiki) practitioner this past spring. She moved to the east coast soon after receiving her Reiki II Attunement and was bummed out that she could not return for her father’s surgery. But, there was something positive she could do for her father.

“My dad was set to have a complicated open heart surgery. I sent my dad Reiki II during his surgery and the surgeon came out of the room (earlier than expected) to inform the family that everything went VERY well and in fact he did not have to do as much as he had originally thought (they were supposed to replace my dad's valve but they did not have to). After open heart surgery, a patient is supposed to be in ICU for at least a few days, guess what? My dad was only there for ONE DAY! Reiki II continued to help my father recover from his surgery very quickly. :)  It was a miracle!”

Question: Did you also send your dad Distance Reiki in anticipation of the surgery?

“Yes I did send it in anticipation of the surgery!”

So what is Distance Reiki?

Distance Reiki is the ability to send the energy that is Reiki across time and space. With the aid of three Reiki symbols, a picture or an image in your mind, and the intention to send Reiki, you are able to send healing energy to anyone in the next room, the next state, or anywhere in the world.

“The telephone, cable TV and Internet all use energy frequencies we can’t see in order to function.  The electricity in our homes does the same, as does a radio. All of these have to be tuned to the particular frequency they operate at in order to work. They all have ways to adjust the flow of energy built in so that we can turn them on, off or use them in a different way. And all of them were thought too unbelievable to be true when people first heard of them.

Distant Reiki works the same way. It is energy that must be “tuned” to the person it is being sent to. Once it is “tuned in” it will flow through the energy currents that exist naturally, just the same way that a phone signal or wifi signal does. Distance is no object for it, just as it is no object for the internet or phone communications…With Reiki, the practitioner is the conduit of the energy.”

By Angie Webster

reikirays.com

Distance Reiki can be used to send energy to any situation you want to see a positive outcome from, whether it be a person, place or thing. Here’s more:

 “As for the job, I had an interview and it went wonderfully!! I should be hearing back from the company shortly! I also received a call back from another company I had applied to and will be scheduling an interview with them as well.  :)”

Question:  Did you send Reiki II to the interview? Have you kept sending?

“And yes again! :)  I sent it to my interview, and have been doing positive affirmations everyday and sending Reiki to my positive affirmations too!  :)”

So, what do you think? Would you like to help someone, a friend, a family member, who is in need? The use of Reiki energy can help.

Emmy Martinez

Reiki Master

San Diego, CA

Reiki Power of Touch

My friend Beth

Written May 2012

My friend Beth (not her real name) has developed a very aggressive, life threatening form of cancer called “small cell cancer” of the lung.  Being a fiercely independent woman, she didn’t tell too many people except for her immediate family and a few individuals at her job.   

After hearing about her illness, I traveled to see Beth to give her Reiki and hopefully make her a little more comfortable.  When I arrived at her house, we laughed and cried over lost time, misplaced memories, and current circumstances.  She looked drawn and pale; she’d lost quite a bit of weight.  I sat next to her at the end of the sofa and I took her feet into my lap.  I put my hands on her ankles and immediately Reiki energy began to flow. After about 20 minutes, she thanked me and said she needed to go to bed and we said goodnight.

The next several days I gave Beth Reiki three times a day.  The amount of energy her body was taking was tremendous, not unusual for cancer patients; and it made me sweat.  Color began coming back into her cheeks, her appetite improved, she was less tired and her personality was lighter, more carefree as I remembered. And as old friends have a way of doing, we enjoyed each other’s company. 

She told me about the fears she had that the cancer had metastasized.  From the amount of energy she was taking at each session, I also feared the worst. There was a CAT scan coming up next week that would give her more information on what was going on in her body. We would have to wait and see.

I needed to leave for a few days, but would return. I asked her what she would do while I was gone. She announced that she was going to Atlantic City. I was appalled. All I could think of was, “the Reiki energy was given to help strengthen her body, to become better able to deal with whatever is happening now, and she is throwing it away!”  After several attempts to reason with her, she told me in a gentle but firm manner, “don’t tell me what to do with my life.” I threw my hands up in surrender. She was right. I had no right to tell her what she should or shouldn’t do. Going to a casino could be good medicine since it made her happy, even if she needed a wheelchair to get around! 

I forced myself from checking in on her every hour that I was gone, but when I got back some days later, she was there in her chair, typing away on her computer looking at me as if saying, “so what was all the fuss about?”  She was fine, a little debilitated from the trip, but fine. 

As I said, Beth is a strong and fiercely independent woman. Last time I spoke to her, she was still traveling for her job and dictating exactly what she will and will not do with her life.  God Bless!

Emmy Martinez

Reiki Master

San Diego, CA

Reiki Power of Touch